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...professional simply swabs the inside of a person's mouth along the upper and lower gums and then inserts the stick into a vial of solution that tests for antibodies to the HIV-1 and HIV-2 virus strains. Within 20 minutes, the results appear on the stick. (Two reddish-purple lines indicate a positive result.) The OraQuick's accuracy rate: over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions 2004: For Your Health | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...still alive." He does stretching exercises along with a radio broadcast, then eats breakfast: whole-grain rice and miso soup with vegetables. He puts in two hours of picking weeds in his 1,000-sq.-ft. field, whose crops are goya--a variety of bitter gourd--a reddish-purple sweet potato called imo, and okra. A fellow has to make a living, so Toguchi buys rice and meat with the profits from his produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Live To Be 100 | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...spiky hair is dyed a reddish orange. Normally it's metallic silver. Unless it's electric mustard. Or sea-urchin blue. "My high school coach didn't like all the different colors," Matsui, who speaks virtually no English, says through an interpreter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Matsui Steps Up | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...make otherwise colorless fish glow neon green in the dark. Professor H.J. Tsai at National Taiwan University works this biological magic by injecting a protein extracted from jellyfish into the fertilized eggs of rice fish. He also uses a protein from coral to make fish glow a vibrant reddish pink. Opponents of genetic engineering fear that these creatures could crossbreed with wild species, creating glowing schools of Frankenfish. To keep them from spreading their shining DNA, the distributor, Taikong International, sterilizes them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions: Light And Dark | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

Dubowski stands unassumingly as he talks, is blue kippah displayed prominently on his head and a think reddish-brown beard covering his face...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Trembling’ Director Confesses at HFA | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

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